[arch-general] New Using AUR

Vincent Van Houtte vvh at synergylaw.be
Wed Mar 24 16:47:09 CET 2010


> >>> 2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system
> >>> upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get
> >>> automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages
> >>> manually?
> >>
> > You can always install yaourt and upgrade packages with yaourt -Syu –-aur
> >
> > Priit
> >
>
> Or, you can install packer (in aur) and do a packer -Syu
>

In short:
- pacman does not provide such functionality
- there are other utilities (pacman/aur helpers) that do provide this
functionality. Check the wiki or 'community contribution'-section on the
forum for all of them.


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